Recently i have gained the courage to start fooling around with my RAM timings but im a little lost. I currently have 4 gig of Corsair DDR2 800 Mhz RAM with timings of 5-5-5-18 and i was told i should try and run them at 4-4-4-12 at around 2 volts. I tried this and prime95 crashed in 0.4 seconds. So to all you pros, what can i do to speed up my RAM?

ok, it got 8 mins without an error, bumping up the voltage helped. should i bump it up some more?

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Let it run. Run through memtest a couple times. Your ram is very limited in what it can do, 4 4-4-12 timings should make things a bit "snappier" especially with an AMD system. Also, post up some CPU-Z screenshots please.

Those are CAS5 sticks i doubt you will have any luck keeping them at 4-4-4-12 stable. Raising the volts to 2.2 you are asking to buy more ram 2.1 they should be able to handle. I would say loosen the timings a bit as mlee49 stated. A few people I know have them sticks and they are hard to tighten the timings from what I was told.

I found this may have some info to help you out. I couldnt really find any thing on those chips.

but i was playing GTA4 for 4 hours last night with no problems at all. i also compressed my whole music folder ( which is 8 gig) just to se eif they were stable, and i have no problems. Only with prime95 :S

but i was playing GTA4 for 4 hours last night with no problems at all. i also compressed my whole music folder ( which is 8 gig) just to se eif they were stable, and i have no problems. Only with prime95 :S

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I run mine at 5-5-5-12 at stock voltage. I have PC 8500 but you might be able to give it a try.